LETTER TO THE EDITOR – Another view on turbine issue

Finally! A local farmerwith the chutzpah to defend (Webmaster’s note: Upon reading this, I am not sure “defend” is the best word to describe the content of this letter. Better words such as “expose”, “challenge”, etc. would be more appropriate.) wind! I applaud Mr. Kirksey for putting his “mouth where his money is!” (Did I get it backward?) But, most importantly, this gives me another opportunity to expose the fallacy that wind is “clean” energy when, after all the hoopla, is merely a tax dodge for the Warren Buffets of the world! Don’t believe me? In his own words “The only reason I invest in wind is for tax purposes.” He, the wind companies, farmers putting a wind turbine on their land and local governments increasing their tax revenue are NOT concerned about “wind” but the government SUBSIDIES associated with it! I have characterized this as “suckling the government teat,” but, contrary to the porcine population, they are NEVER weaned!

“Every turbine results in using less fossil fuel and cuts down on foreign fuel imports.” Wrong! Research ANY data NOT associated with the wind industry or it’s proponents, and do a life cycle cost analysis. I did not know there was such an animal! It is simply a way to evaluate the efficiency of something using dollars or, as the case with wind, using the total fossil fuel expended over the lifetime of a wind turbine. When everything from manufacturing the components, erecting the turbine, maintenance and decommissioning of the turbine (they have a low life expectancy) is included, the amount of fossil fuels used will NEVER be recovered over the lifetime of the turbine! You also must include the cost of keeping fossil fuel power plants online for the 65-70 percent of time the wind doesn’t blow sufficiently to produce electrical energy which means a lot more fossil fuel is used than will EVER be recovered. Instead of “win, win” this is “lose, lose!”

A 50,000-bushel grain bin equivalent to a wind turbine? When was the last time a grain bin sounded like a freight train? Blinked its red lights from sunset to dawn? Created “flicker?” Disrupted my ability to aerial spray? Endangered someone walking in close proximity? Killed an eagle? Lowered my property value? Crushed my tile lines? Or, according to Dick, disturbed “traditional agricultural vistas?” A simple direct answer is NEVER!

Mr. Kirksey has postulated allowing the erection of a wind turbine is equivalent to a farmer’s natural inclination to improve his farming operation. That is asinine! I value the land and protect it with cover crops and no-till and I cringe at the thought of huge machinery destroying ANY part of my farm. I am concerned even when Clark Abel runs his tiling machine across my land even though I know it’s necessary.

I am one of the “childish name-callers.” If you’ve signed a wind turbine contract without checking with your neighbors, you are nothing but a “greedy hog!”And, if the Clay County Board of Supervisors fail to provide adequate distance requirements to protect the property value of nonturbine land owners, they are guilty of dereliction of duty and need to be fired as well as being “greedy hogs!” They have an inordinate concern over the right of a land owner to erect a turbine, but, I suspect, would have a difficult time finding that right in our constitution, bill of rights or any other document!

Have we become so jaded that we’re willing to waste our taxpayer dollars on an industry that will NEVER compete in a free market? Why does the board of supervisors allow these ugly plastic and steel monstrosities to pit neighbor against neighbor? In the immortal word of Pogo — “We have met the enemy, and he is us!”

This is from the Blue Creek Wind Project this morning. The resident said he lives in an airport. This is criminal to do to people.

The Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Ripoff

This is exactly where we (the U.S) is heading, same policies, same direction, same religion and the same ideologies! This man & his wife are paying out $829.00 (US dollars) a month for electricity! We are being taken as fools! Stop falling for this massive hoax of man made climate change & so - called green energy scams supposedly helping to solve a problem that doesn't even exist!

Wind Turbine Infrasound Recordings Shown On An Oscilloscope

With all that alarmist propaganda, the alarmists have FAILED!

Kevon Martis testifying before the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee

Outrage grows over rising electricity rates in rural Ontario

Wake up America!

Hydraulic Fracturing - Unlocking American Energy

Wow, I like the part that says that the site is around the size of a 2 car garage..compare that to the hundreds and even thousands of acres sacrificed in the name of unreliable wind!

“I can’t enjoy outside anymore”

Greenwich Wake Up! Our silence is permission! We can have this proactive conversation while there is still time or, like this woman and so many more like her, allow the wind turbines to determine our quality of life!?!

A MUST see...EXCLUSIVE: Wind Energy War On The High Plains

In this exclusive report, Infowars reporter Millie Weaver exposes the explicit fraud, deception, and outright criminality behind wind energy and how it may be used to run rural communities off their properties as part of a major land grab effort in concert with Agenda 21.

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar?

Low Frequency Noise and Health

Lecture about low frequency noise and infrasound and its effects on health, by Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira. Held in Gram, Denmark, on December 14, 2016. (speaker is in English with English captions when Danish is spoken)

Wind Turbines Property Value Loss

Wind industry puppet regurgitates yet more spin...

Where Your Electricity Comes From

Recycling Retired Wind Turbines

Who Cleans Up When a Wind Farm Retires?

GNU Square Dance.. excuse the poor lighting..enjoy!

The Board of Zoning Appeals of Tipton County considered Juwi Wind's application for the Prairie Breeze Wind Farm. They were not fooled on the property value bait and switch.

Flying Low, Dodging Towers

GNU Meeting with Attorney Sam Randazzo

Take 20 minutes to educate yourself as to why Wind Farms are predators not solutions!

Wind Farm Remorse

"Destroying relationships and communities it's not worth a couple of thousand dollars a year!"

Health Board Says the Shirley Wind Project is a Health Hazard

The Global Warming Song

Global Warming; 31,487 Scientists say NO to Alarm

The Truth about CO2

Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?

Is Climate Change Our Biggest Problem?

Carbon Dioxide Police!

So, really...you don't think this could happen?

T. Boone Pickens says he lost $200 million in wind energy

STOCKYARD HILL Spells It Out to ORIGIN ENERGY

Superb. Powerful and strong. It is time ruthless developers were told, faced down and kicked out. Good luck to you in your fight and may other campaigners across the world take confidence in your actions and follow your lead. Respect!﻿

The on site building of a wind turbine

It's just amazing the destruction done to the land to put this behemoth up!

German ecologists decry wind turbines

DOWN WIND - Wind Farm documentary in HD

Poisoning Pigeons in the "Wind Park"

Wind Farms Destroy the Environment 2: TOXIC WASTE

Wind Farms Destroy the Environment 3: HUMAN HEALTH

Reporter kicked out of AWEA meeting!

Events were held on the same day dealing with wind energy in Michigan by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Informed Citizens Coalition (IICC).